by Vaddi Sudhakar
The Korean peninsula is once again sending an alarm signal to the international community that the region is highly sensitive. The firing of shells between the two Korean nations is a second major incident after the sinking of (...)
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Korean Peninsula: Looking through the Lenses
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Making Money while Helping the Poor
31 December 2010, by Nirmalya BiswasIntroduction
Is it possible to make money while helping the poor fighting against poverty? In the last ten years or so, at least one business, micro-financing, appears to answer in the affirmative. Micro-finance has been a catchword for a few (...) -
Productive Outcome of Sarkozy Visit
12 December 2010, by SCWhile the 2G spectrum scam takes a new turn with the CBI carrying out nationwide raids on several premises including those of disgraced erstwhile Telecom Minister A. Raja and his close associates among officials and businessmen more than a year (...) -
WikiLeaks, US, Pakistan, Afghanistan
12 December 2010, by Bashir MohammadAs the arrested founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange in a signed article in The Australian, titled “Don’t shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths”, on December 8 called for the “need to defend the right of all media to reveal the (...) -
Revisiting Obama’s Visit
12 December 2010by Suvrat Raju
Although the mainstream media collectively swooned on President Barack Obama—when he visited India in early November—and breath-lessly informed its audience about how many rooms he had booked at various five-star hotels, there was (...) -
Ensuring Justice to People
12 December 2010, by R Venkataraman[(ON RAMASWAMI VENKATARAMAN’S BIRTH CENTENARY
The birth centenary of our former President, Ramaswami Venkataraman (1910-2009), fell last week on December 4. Remembering him on this occasion we are reproducing here a speech he delivered more than (...) -
The Copy-book President
12 December 2010, by K. SubrahmanyamPresident R. Venkataraman, whose 100th birthday falls today, called himself a copy-book President, and compared the role of the Indian presidency to that of an “emergency light” which comes into play only when needed. His style of functioning as a (...) -
Upholding Objectivity beyond the Culture of Sycophancy
12 December 2010, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
We as a nation have taken pride in the fact that in political life, a liberal and tolerant approach has become the hall-mark of Indian democracy. While differences have always cropped up in our national movement involving the (...) -
Free Speech in the History of Ideas
12 December 2010, by Meher EngineerPreamble
“Indian historians have forgotten the history of ideas.” The claim appeared as the headline of a recent newspaper article.1 Add it to your worry-list if you will, but do not forget as you do that similar claims can be made, with as much (...) -
When the Police Break the Law
12 December 2010by Arup Dasgupta
India’s emergence as the fourth largest economy with its burgeoning growth story conceals the grim world of poverty and deprivation of her teeming millions across the vast countrywide. The largest democracy of the world has (...)